The masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition\ : illustrated (1876)
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Shinn, Earl, 1838-1886, Smith, Walter, 1836-1886, Wilson, Joseph M · Philadelphia : Gebbie & Barrie · leaf 38
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. 12 lution, whose works compare together with a certain harmony. There was Gerard, whose “Cupid and Psyche” is a painting that suggests some pure, cold group of ancient sculpture ; there was Prudhon, whose faces caught the subtle, penetrating smile so often… … hon’s women, a critic has said, they are grisettes, of the Restoration period, but designed by a painter of Athens ; and there was Girodet, a ripe and classic draftsman, but afflicted in his coloring with a tinge of green ; of whose famous Bible scene delineating the Flood, Thackeray remarks that…
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